What Might Happen to Trump’s Ill-Gotten Gains

Next Draft: “Trump faces little danger of prison. The U.S. Supreme Court has bestowed substantial criminal impunity on him, even assuming that he leaves office in 2029 as required by the Constitution. But an ex-president remains subject to civil liability, and the proceeds of bribery, extortion, insider trading, and market manipulation may be exposed to civil penalties. Other countries have shown the way.” 

David Frum in The Atlantic (Gift Article): What Might Happen to Trump’s Ill-Gotten Gains. “As much as Americans may wish to forget the Trumps and their corruption after this presidency ends, the next generation of Trumps surely understands that political power is its surest defense against legal retribution. 

This makes recovering the Trumps’ wrongfully obtained wealth not only a matter of justice but also a matter of democratic survival.” (I doubt the ill-gotten gains will ever leave Trump family pockets, but we can hope…)

Your boss, tech companies and police can read your chatbot conversations

Washington Post: Americans ask AI chatbots about almost everything, but they might not realize that other people could see their conversations. Americans ask AI chatbots about almost everything, from health to relationships to big existential questions. While those conversations might feel enlightening or intimate, they are not always one thing: private. 

A Washington Post review of public records and local news stories found a dozen instances of chatbot transcripts being cited in the public record in court cases over the past two years. 

In many cases, the transcripts were unearthed from users’ devices when searched by a police officer or an opposing party during the evidence-gathering stage of a civil case. In a handful of instances, AI companies have reported disturbing content on their platforms to law enforcement.

 “Unless you are having a chat with a service that has a temporary chat or, basically, an incognito version … [and] you’re also having it within a browser that’s not tracking you, the answer is no. You can’t be sure that it’ll be totally private,” said Jen King, a privacy researcher at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. Here’s what to know about the privacy of your chatbot conversations….”